The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-26
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THE Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com
pany is having built at its shops 100 iron tubular
cars. These are said to weigh less than wooden
cars Of the same dimensions and to nave
! carrying capacity of $1,000 pounds.
THERE are said to be about sixty Protestant
communities in Spain with 1900 openly pro-
fessed Protestants, and hardly large town
without a regularly organized church. 1t is just
eighteen years since the first Protestant chapel
was opened in Madrid.
TIE parchment commission of President An
drew Jackson to Com. Charles Stewart cold
Ironsides''), grandfather of Charles Stewart Par
nell, has been received by the Irish leader from
Pay Director Cunningham, of the United States
army. The first initial of the Presidents sigma
ture is said to be three inches long.
A BOGUS United States army officer has been
Furnishing in New Bedford, Mass, where he
gave numerous orders to tailors, shoe dealers
and other merchants to have goods delivered to
various places, and gave as security fraudulent
drafts on army paymasteis He even began to
recruit q gang of men for work on fort and
from one of these he received 81 change on
bogus check.
SIXTY EIGHT years ago five English gentlemen
in a tavern at Baltimore organized the order of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. To-day
it numbers in the United States over 100000
members. 1t has disbursed since its organiza-
pended in various ways for the prosecution of
its work S110,000,000 and has never been more
prosperous than now.
A TEXAS editor announces himself as follows:
'We were born on the Texas frontier have
been reared on the broad prairie; have plowed,
herded cattle, kept store, run mill, practiced
physic, lectured on phrenology edited news
paper and run drug store, but we have never
been whipped, and when any person undertakes
it he will be pretty certain to regret it till he
dies phase God, as the Irishman said that he
lives that long We can be slandered, cursed,
abused and ridiculed, but we draw the line at
being whipped"
Mrs. FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT has decided
views upon the appearance of the portraits of
authors and prominent persons in newspapers
and magazines. To correspondent who recent
ly solicited a copy of a portrait of herself for
publication in a magazine, the authoress wrote:
There Is nothing more painful to contemplate
than picture of oneself in a book or news
paper. If one is a beauty ones reputation is
instantly destroyed, and if one cannot afford to
have any percentage taken off ones good looks,
the consequences are that ones secret hopes are
blasted, and ones most timid and modest conf
dence in oneself forever a ruin
Gov. LARRABEE, of Iowa, recently declared
that prohibition had worked wonderful inn
provement in the moral and material condition
of the people. The official compilation of crimi-
| nal returns for 1867 made to the Secretary of
State tells different story. In the entire State
last year the number of convictions all told was
1889, this year it is 1645. Last year the number
sent to the county jails was 139, this year it is
1873. The total amount of fines imposed by the
District Court last year was S75,581 43 this year
it is Sl17,64 40 Total expenses on account of
criminal prosecutions Including District Attor-
neys' fees last year, $439,5S2 90; this year,
S452,613 49,
THE steamships Arizona, of the Guion Line,
and Servia, of the Cunard Line, which left
Queenstown about the same time, May 8, ar
rived on Monday in New York within an hour of
each other. During the entire voyage the two
kept constantly in sight of each other By night
each others lights could always be seen, and at
day either the sparS or smoke of one vessel
| could be seen from the decks Of the other steam
er. The passengers on the Servia were constant
~ watching the Arizona, which they hoped to
leave behind, while the people on the rival boat
regarded the Servia with similar interest. Such
close rivalry between ocean grey hounds during
voyage has never occurred before.
PEpDLERs are sometimes rather queer. but
| remarkable queer specimen visited Fair Haven,
Conn.,, Monday. He was a little Englishman
and was selling dry goods The lady of one
house refused to buy from him. when inmedi-
ately his face heightened and he set up a dismal
howl At first his antics made the lady laugh.
but he kept up his bowling until she offered to
buy lOc worth in order to get rid of him No,
he wanted her to invest 25c. and no less, and he
again began to bawl and kick like a spoiled
child He refused to compromise even on 20c.,
ana the lady, seeing that arbitration was impos-
sible, was finally compelled to buy quarters
worth. The peddler then packed up and left.
THE following is the analysis of an orange
purchased in the Boston market and analyzed
for the Journal of Chemistry: The skin weighed
67.5 grams, which is 1888 per cent. The seeds
weighed grams, which is 2.s4 per cent The
pulp weighed 1872 grams which is n. SO per cent
The skin contains in 100 parts: Water and vola-
tile Oil. 1S.OO organic matter ash
The seed contained in 100 parts: Water 90 30;
organic matter, SOS; ash, .S3. The pulp con.
tanned in 100 parts: Grape sugar. 4.3; cane
sugar, AZ; in free acid 10. The free acid CON
slsts OF about equal parts of malic and citric
acid. The ash constituents of the orange were
as follows: Potash, $50; soda, rs; lime, $50;
magnesia, 65; feric phosphate, II; sulphur,
80; silica, 90; phosphoric acid, 141.
TwENTY-TEREE YEARS AGO Sam 3. Putlow. a
resident Of Southampton county, Va, caught a
catfish measuring inches in length which he
put in a well on his premises used for watering
his horses. The catfish has been living there in
that well ever since until few days ago, when
he Yves found dead floating upon the water He
was drawn up and measured again by Mr..
Putlow measuring at this time 6% inches The fish
has had no other sustenarce than what animal
cllfe was in the water. During his stay in the
well he has been drawn up several times by the
bucket and put back again About two weeks
ago young lady living in Mr. Putlow's family
sympathizing with the fish, knowing his need of
food, began to feed him with bread. It has been
said by some that this giving him bread) caused
his death.
JOSEPH PAREAU, Frenchman, who left his
family in Norwich Conn, that long ago. has
just found his wife and children in North
Adams Mass, where they moved twelve years
ago and by working at the shoe factories man
aged to make living. Two of the children
nave died during the twenty years, and the
family gave up all hopes Of seeing the father
again. Pareau went to sea and has been sailor
ever since on vessels belonging to the Royal.
Steamship Company He wrote frequently to
ms family at Norwich, but his letters never
reached them, and he had given up all hope of
seeing them again. While i'm Montreal this
week he saw the notice Of the funeral of one of
his old acquaintances at North Adams and de-
cided TO attend the services. He then learned
the whereabouts of his family.
On NJ. Eichniger's farm in the township of
Clear Lake, or 10 miles from Gary, Oak, were
several small mounds, supposed to be Indian
graves, few days ago one of these mounds
was opened. A human skull was found and a
bronze medal bearing on its face naval EN- bems
and apparently once worn by marine The
face side of the medal Is black and embossed
on the face were an anchor and cable wound
around the stock and shank, and across and
behind the shank a large cannon. The medal Is
nearly square, with elongated corners, and
measures from corner to corner 10 inches. The
back is a bronze color These mounds will in
the near future be opened and examined They
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